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AUBURNDALE, Fla. - The future has arrived in Auburndale. A national machinery company recently showcased its newest piece of farm equipment at Polkdale Farms, which grows blueberries.

Its a robotic tractor that uses artificial intelligence.

"For us, it is a game changer," said Polk County Commissioner Bill Braswell, who is a farm owner.

A representative of Monarch Tractor was at the farm recently to demonstrate it.

"Were out showing dealers, showing farmers, and showing growers what the future of farming is going to look like," said Mike Davidson, a Monarch Tractor spokesman.

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After you program the tractor, it will follow your orders, mowing, and spraying even shooting video of its trip, which the grower can review to evaluate his crop.

It also has several safety features. It will not cross a road.

If a person or animal gets in the tractors path, it stops, alerts the grower, and sends him a video.

The robot tractor costs about $90,000 and up, depending on the upgrades, which is a little more than a traditional manned tractor.

It works about six hours per charge.

Braswell wants to be the first person in Florida to own one. He says it is one way around the ongoing farm labor shortage.

"If I can replace somebody," he said, "which is what this is doing, it works great for us."

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Tractor using artificial intelligence could be first of its kind in Florida at Auburndale blueberry farm - FOX 13 Tampa

Artificial intelligence has produced a series of images depicting what it considers to be 'perfect' men and women, with the results fuelling concern among social media watchdogs about the impact of unrealistic beauty standards.

The Bulimia Project, an eating disorder awareness group, asked several AI image generators - including Dall-E 2, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney - to produce its interpretations of 'perfect' male and female bodies. The AI tools worked by scouring the internet for billions of existing images that depict conventionally 'beautiful' people, analysing them, and designing a new image based on those results.

The process also utilised engagement analytics and data - such as likes, comments and searches - to determine what appearances attract the most engagement on social media.

The Bulimia Project, who monitored the findings, has since warned that the results and depictions of stereotypically attractive body types are "largely unrealistic".

According to the results, the tropes 'gentlemen prefer blondes' and 'tall, dark and handsome' both ring true, with the researchers finding desirable women mostly had blonde hair, olive skin, brown eyes and slim figures, while desirable men typically had chiselled cheekbones, strong jawlines, defined muscles and dark hair and eyes.

Nearly 40 percent of the 'perfect' women depicted in the images were blonde, 30 percent had brown eyes, and 53 percent had olive skin. Almost 70 percent of the AI-generated 'perfect' men had brown hair and 23 percent had brown eyes. Similar to the women, the majority of the men - 63 percent - had tanned, olive skin and nearly half had facial hair. Meanwhile, images of the 'ideal' male body featured muscular builds, similar to those of bodybuilders, with bulging muscles and six-pack abs.

The people generated also sported features that were almost too perfect to be realistic, such as plump lips; smooth, unblemished and unwrinkled complexions without a single pore; and pert, 'ski-slope' noses: features many people go under the knife to achieve or imitate with dermal fillers.

Most of the results produced by AI appeared to adhere to outdated, highly conventional standards of beauty that favour Caucasian and olive skin tones, slim but muscular physiques and blonde or brown hair.

The images generated by AI overwhelmingly featured white people, with only a few examples depicting people of colour - suggesting the tools had a number of inherent biases.

"In the age of Instagram and Snapchat filters, no one can reasonably achieve the physical standards set by social media," The Bulimia Project's report concluded.

"So, why try to meet unrealistic ideals? It's both mentally and physically healthier to keep body image expectations squarely in the realm of reality."

James Campigotto, a data journalist in Florida who worked on the study, told Fox News the aim of the research was to explore the power of social media and the dangers of AI, including its inherent biases.

"Considering that social media uses algorithms based on which content gets the most lingering eyes, it's easy to guess why AI's renderings would come out more sexualised," the report said.

"But we can only assume that the reason AI came up with so many oddly shaped versions of the physiques it found on social media is that these platforms promote unrealistic body types, to begin with."

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Artificial intelligence generates images of what it thinks 'perfect' men and women look like - Newshub

The UK military must invest in artificial intelligence (AI), drones and technology in order to combat the threats it will face in the future, the head of the Royal Navy has said.

First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Ben Key made the comments during his annual Seapower Conference keynote speech at Lancaster House in London.

At the two-day gathering, Admiral Sir Ben said the UK had to rise to the challenges it faces, especially those posed by Russian submarines, as "coming second" was not "a desirable option".

"As we watch the increasing deployment by Russia of their most modern submarines, some of the very quietest in the world, you would expect me to be investing in the cutting-edge technology anti-submarine capabilities that allow us to detect, find and, if necessary, defeat them," he said.

In the last year, the UK has invested heavily in underwater capabilities, including the new submarine hunter HMS Anson and RFA Proteus and RFA Stirling Castle to protect both undersea cables and infrastructure and deal with any future mine threats.

However, with the battlefield extending "from seabed to space" and "breath-taking" advances in data and artificial intelligence, the Royal Navy has to be "deliberately ambitious" with its goals for exploiting AI.

"It is causing us to reimagine warfare, creating dynamic new benchmarks for accuracy, efficiency and lethality," Admiral Sir Ben said.

"The goal is enhanced lethality and survivability through the deployment of AI-enabled capabilities."

The Royal Navy is also pressing ahead with pilotless helicopters and quadcopters, as well as the increased use of Banshee dronesconsidered more conventional crewless tech.

But the First Sea Lord wants to go further, with longer-range tech capable of gathering intelligence and striking targets.

Another element is increasing the striking power of the Royal Navy, with the new Mark 41 missile silo helping to achieve this.

A launcher is being fitted to all eight Type 26 frigates, allowing the ships to use a variety of current and future anti-air, anti-surface, ballistic missile defence and strike missilesincluding the Royal Navy's Future Offensive Surface Weapon.

The launchers will also now be fitted to five Type 31 frigates under construction on the Forth.

Admiral Sir Ben also discussed the Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers.

"As a result of investment over the last two decades we now operate two fifth-generation aircraft carriers, nuclear powered ballistic and attack submarines a range of aircraft, escorts and support ships to allow us to deploy globally, as well as fielding an elite amphibious fighting force," he said.

"There are very few navies in the world which can do this and so I am delighted that we remain in that first tier."

The Navy chief also underlined the vital role the sea, the trade which flows on it and data and pipelines which flow beneath it, plays in the security and prosperity of the UK.

"We must make our voice heard and increase the recognition once again about the vital importance of the sea for our island nation and the global community," Admiral Sir Ben concluded.

"This is what a seapower state does, what I believe the United Kingdom is and should be and must be into the future and I look forward to the part that we will play in continuing to drive it forward."

The conference marked the 50th anniversary of the ongoing agreement between the Royal and Royal Dutch Navies and Royal Marines-Netherlands Marines Corps to train, exercise and deploy together.

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New artificial intelligence technology being trialed in Leeds could speed up urgent cancer referrals.

The PinPoint blood test has been designed as a decision support tool to help doctors triage patients more effectively. Its machine learning algorithm searches for signs of cancer in 31 standard markers in a blood sample and takes into account a patients age and sex and uses all this data to come up with a probability.

Red results would have referrals accelerated, Amber would be referred as normal and Green would be sent to a GP to explore alternative diagnoses for their symptoms.

The system, which has been developed in Leeds, bases its results on anonymous medical data.

Our technology can transform the approach to diagnostics for cancer. The PinPoint test accurately calculates an individuals risk profile based on historic data from more patients than a doctor could see in a lifetime and can become an important tool for supporting clinical decision making, explained Giles Tully, CEO of PinPoint Data Science.

The system is now being trialed by Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, as part of the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Cancer Alliance service's evaluation to see if it can improve early detection, cut waiting times and reduce anxiety among those unlikely to have cancer.

We need to start thinking differently about our cancer pathways because of huge demand and capacity issues causing bottlenecks across the NHS, said Dr Nisha Sharma, Consultant Radiologist and Director of Breast Screening at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

The PinPoint test has the potential to help clinicians to prioritise those at high risk and make the process less fraught for patients.

The PinPoint system was created by Leeds-based PinPoint Data Science in collaboration with Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and the University of Leeds with support from the Leeds Academic Health Partnership, Yorkshire and Humber Academic Health Science Network and the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Cancer Alliance.

It has received more than 1.7m in grants from SBRI Healthcare and the national NHS Cancer Programme to help roll-out the test more widely.

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Leeds trials artificial intelligence to speed up cancer referrals - Prolific North

Artificial intelligence (AI)

A tour of the sites, featuring fake facts and odd wording, left me wondering what was real

Breaking news from celebritiesdeaths.com: the president is dead.

At least thats what the highly reliable website informed its readers last month, under the no-nonsense headline Biden dead. Harris acting president, address 9am ET. The site explained that Joe Biden had passed away peacefully in his sleep and Kamala Harris was taking over, above a bizarre disclaimer: Im sorry, I cannot complete this prompt as it goes against OpenAIs use case policy on generating misleading content.

Celebritiesdeaths.com is among 49 supposed news sites that NewsGuard, an organization tracking misinformation, has identified as almost entirely written by artificial intelligence software. The sites publish up to hundreds of articles daily, according to the report, much of that material containing signs of AI-generated content, including bland language and repetitive phrases. Some of the articles contain false information and many of the sites are packed with ads, suggesting theyre intended to make money via programmatic, or algorithmically generated, advertising. The sources of the stories arent clear: many lack bylines or use fake profile photos. In other words, NewsGuard says, experts fears that entire news organizations could be generated by AI have already become reality.

Its hard to imagine who would believe this stuff if Biden had died, the New York Times would probably cover it and all 49 sites contain at least one instance of AI error messaging containing phrases such as I cannot complete this prompt or as an AI language model. But, as Futurism points out, a big concern here is that false information on the sites could serve as the basis for future AI content, creating a vicious cycle of fake news.

What do these sites look like and would AI articles always be as easy to spot as the report of Bidens death? I spent an afternoon in the brave new world of digital nonsense to find out.

The first stop was Get Into Knowledge, which offers a huge amount of knowledge to get into, all of it regurgitated on to the homepage seemingly at random. (We wont link to the sites here to avoid boosting them further.)

The headlines seemed like the work of translation software. One category was amazing reasons behind: for instance, a lengthy article on Why do dogs eat grass? amazing reasons behind and Why is yawning contagious? 10 Amazing Science Facts behind. A piece on whether oceans freeze was based on Massive science, and the site dares to ask questions such as why is the Sky Blue but the Space black? and the even more poetic Does the gravity of Mars the same as Earths?, something Ive often wondered. I started to wonder if the language was too odd to be the work of ChatGPT, which tends to be readable, if boring.

That was the case with the articles themselves. Theyre ordered like presentations, with an outline at the top and paragraphs arranged by number. But there are glimpses of true humanity: for instance, the piece on grass-eating dogs refers to them as our furry friends six times. These pieces certainly read like the work of AI, and a person who identified himself to NewsGuard as the sites founder said the site used automation at some points where they are extremely needed. (The site did not immediately reply to emails from the Guardian.)

Once Id gotten into enough knowledge, I visited celebritiesdeaths.com, which earnestly describes itself as news on famous figures who have died a refreshing change from outlets like Us Weekly that insist on covering figures who are still alive.

Other than the Biden snafu, the deaths that I factchecked had actually occurred, though they appear to have stopped in March: links to deaths in April and May didnt work. Fortunately, the shortage of deaths in those months was balanced by individuals repeated deaths in March: the last surviving Czech second world war RAF pilot, for instance, apparently died on both the 25th and the 26th.

I also learned that a dumpling empire founder died on 26 March, which was impressive information given that the article claimed to have been posted on 26 February. Celebritiesdeaths.com did not deem it necessary to provide the name of the founder of the colossal global dumpling franchise, even though the 96-year-olds demise was widely mourned. (The piece must have referred to Yang Bing-yi, who founded a celebrated Taiwanese chain.) A Guardian email to the address listed on the site was immediately returned with an error message.

Once Id had enough of dead celebrities, I headed to ScoopEarth.com, which provides juicy insider information on stars who are still breathing, as well as, for some reason, tech tips. The first article was about the musician August Alsina, who, I learned, was born on 3 September 1992 at the age of 30. His 3 September birthday presumably explains why every September, Alsina has a birthday party on September 3. In an email, Niraj Kumar, identified on the site as its founder, rejected claims the site used AI, calling the material purely genuine. Many of the pieces on the site felt too oddly worded to be ChatGPT, but there was so much repeated information that it also felt like it couldnt be written by humans. I found myself wondering how we can trust anything on the internet if its already so difficult to tell when AI is involved.

Finally, I visited Famadillo.com for product reviews. This immaculately curated site is laser-focused on stress-release tablets, RVing tips, Mothers Day T-shirts and the top sites in Santa Fe. The reviews themselves are sensible enough, but navigating the site is virtually impossible. Perhaps its perfectly designed for a true dilettante the kind of person whod read a review of Play-Dohs Super Stretchy Green Slime immediately after a piece tackling the thorny question Are baby potatoes regular potatoes?

In an email to the Guardian, Famadillo rejected claims it used AI to generate content highlighted in the NewsGuard report. Famadillo runs reported interviews and reviews and uses press releases for our contest pages. None of this content is generated by AI, the email read. That being said, we have experimented with AI in terms of refreshing old content and editing reporter-written content with the supervision of our editors.

The controversy points to the growing difficulty of discerning the humans from the bots. By the end of the day, I was even more confused about what was real and what wasnt than I am after waking from a dream or watching 15 minutes of Fox News. Who, exactly, is running these sites is unclear: many dont contain contact information, and of those that NewsGuard managed to contact, most failed to reply while those that did were vague about their operations. Meanwhile, their impact appears to vary widely some post to Facebook pages with tens of thousands of followers while others have none.

If this is what AI generates now, imagine what it will look like when sites like this become AIs source material. We can only hope that the bots remain compulsively honest about their identities or that Joe Biden finds a way to prevent an AI wild west. Assuming hes still alive.

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Nearly 50 news websites are AI-generated, a study says. Would I be able to tell? - The Guardian